Cope.
West Point kicks off process to remove Confederate monuments on campus
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Cope.
I don't much care if they take the monuments down or erect even more of them.
They are art in the form of chunks of stone/granite/whatever.
They mean almost NOTHING to me.
Anyone who freaks about this stuff?
On either side?
Needs to get more in their lives.
100% for certain.
They are art in the form of chunks of stone/granite/whatever.
They mean almost NOTHING to me.
Anyone who freaks about this stuff?
On either side?
Needs to get more in their lives.
100% for certain.
YAYYYY!!! We are saved!!!!
You know the irony in this? Inside the walls of that institution, they will continue to study these men and their strategies and tactics and the entire anatomy of that war and that period of American history. Ostensibly, to "ensure it never happens again" (also, many of them were brilliant warriors). In less than a generation, only men at arms will know real American history.
It is ironic only to you.
The history is not being erased.
I see that you didn't remove the penises from all of your orifices.
Lee, once a U.S. military general who was ultimately appointed commander of the Confederate army toward the end of the Civil War, was a graduate and superintendent of West Point and lingered as a significant presence on the academy's New York State campus for more than a century after his death.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-point-removes-confederate-symbols-statues-robert-e-lee/
ha ha. Congress fucks around and appoints a commission to whitewash (my word) any vestiges of the Confederacy except those narrow few approved by a FEDERAL NAMING COMMISSION
It's only a matter of time before they change the name of Washington & Lee College
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Changes to West Point property bearing Lee's name, which he said are due to take effect by the end of next year. They include renaming roads as well as multiple buildings and school facilities, like a dormitory and child development center.
Specific guidance given to West Point was determined by a federally-mandated panel, called the Naming Commission, that issued recommendations for the removal of Confederate artifacts and renaming of buildings and other campus properties at the end of August. Those recommendations were officially approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this past October.
Congress created the Naming Commission last year to review, and create recommendations to change, symbols honoring the Confederacy at West Point as well as the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-point-removes-confederate-symbols-statues-robert-e-lee/
It's only a matter of time before they change the name of Washington & Lee College
~~
Changes to West Point property bearing Lee's name, which he said are due to take effect by the end of next year. They include renaming roads as well as multiple buildings and school facilities, like a dormitory and child development center.
Specific guidance given to West Point was determined by a federally-mandated panel, called the Naming Commission, that issued recommendations for the removal of Confederate artifacts and renaming of buildings and other campus properties at the end of August. Those recommendations were officially approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this past October.
Congress created the Naming Commission last year to review, and create recommendations to change, symbols honoring the Confederacy at West Point as well as the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-point-removes-confederate-symbols-statues-robert-e-lee/
It may not have any meaning go you, but its very much a politically correct driven sanitation of US history
There is no "sanitation" here.
cultural revolution then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds
Calls to destroy the "Four Olds" usually did not appear in isolation, but were contrasted with the hope of building the "Four News" (new customs, new culture, new habits, new ideas).
Newborn socialist things were said to struggle against the Four Olds.[
I remember you talking about that. It's not even remotely comparable.
Students still learn about Civil War in school and elsewhere. Plenty of museums and reenactments.
Gondwanaland
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And? He's a traitorous piece of shit who violated his oath in order to fight to preserve slavery, and is the direct cause of hundreds of thousands of deaths of Army servicemen.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Robert E Lee was not a scumbag.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
interesting.......when was the last time you walked by a statue and celebrated something.......
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
your brains are.....
Gondwanaland
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He betrayed his oath and killed hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who took that same oath. You can't get much more scumbag than that.
But in any case I didn't call him a scumbag there, I called him a traitorous piece of shit.
Gondwanaland
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Germany doesn't have statues commemorating Hitler. Yet somehow their history is not 'sanitized', nor have people forgotten who he was or what he did.
signalmankenneth
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The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans
for the Battle of Gettysburg’s 50th anniversary. The June 29–July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (~8,750 Confederate)
was the largest ever Civil War veteran reunion, and “never before in the world’s history [had] so great a number of men so advanced in years been assembled under field conditions” (Chief Surgeon). All honorably discharged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans were invited, and veterans from 46 of the 48 states attended (cf. Nevada).Despite concerns “that there might be unpleasant differences, at least, between the blue and gray” (as after England’s War of the Roses and the French Revolution), the peaceful reunion was repeatedly marked by events of Union–Confederate camaraderie.
President Woodrow Wilson’s July 4 reunion address summarized the spirit: “We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten—except that we shall not forget the splendid valor.”
Nine Army Bases Honoring Confederate Leaders Could Soon Have New Names
Proposed by a government panel, the suggested title changes honor several women and people of color
United States Army bases have historically been named for white men. But as the military continues to grapple with its racist history, which came under more intense scrutiny after the 2020 police murder of George Floyd, the country’s defense department is taking a look inward and proposing new base names that primarily honor women and people of color.
A commission that Congress tasked with coming up with new names for bases named after Confederate officers has unveiled nine replacement options.
The proposed names pay homage to people like Sergeant William Henry Johnson, a Black soldier who heroically fought off German troops during World War I and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and Mary Edwards Walker, the Army’s first woman surgeon, who ultimately received the Medal of Honor for her bravery during the Civil War.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...bases-honoring-confederate-leaders-180980160/
We are removing your dark past?!!
BartenderElite
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No - it isn't.
The history is still taught in full. Nothing about that has changed.
People are choosing to not honor and celebrate those who fought to perpetuate slavery. This isn't "woke." It's common sense & decency.
Why doesn’t Germany have Hitler statues?
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Robert E Lee was not an evil man nor was he a traitor. You look like an asshat when you say he was.